Prisons need better drug treatment programs to control infectious diseases
- Written by Kate Dolan, Professor of Global Prisoner Health, UNSW Australia
Those who enter prison uninfected are at risk of becoming infected.josefkubes/ShutterstockWorldwide, around 30 million people enter and leave prison each year. Of these people, around 4.5 million have hepatitis C, almost 1 million have HIV and 1.5 million have hepatitis B infections.
In many countries, prisons are underfunded and overcrowded, and in...





